Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.

Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood

Samuel Johnson

No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Charles Horton Cooley

The illuminable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb, for we have no word to speak about it.

Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, HeroW

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

Moliere

Life is so unfair that one is more likely to get into some sort of trouble than be rewarded if one attempts to do a good deed; many times one spends time and resources to help someone only to be totally ignored with not so much as a thank you.

John P. Grier

Jem is my greatest sin.

Cassandra Clare

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.

W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.

Hugh Hefner

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Eliza Farnham

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Jennie Jerome Churchill

The U.S. military has done a phenomenal job of creating these facilities almost over-night and dealing with these sworn enemies of America with more respect and dignity than they ever would have considered according our officers had they captured any.

Charles Foster Bass

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

John Edgar Wideman